tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485284789970057981.post9005047081573662430..comments2011-05-18T15:25:35.358-06:00Comments on The Post Picayune: You lack the brains to know that 4 simultaneous days rotate in an imaginary cubed Earth.Michael Devinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05558968323883297361noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485284789970057981.post-24259891365363506122010-01-10T15:12:23.891-07:002010-01-10T15:12:23.891-07:00Everything changes. Except change. And taxes? E...Everything changes. Except change. And taxes? Except when they go up.<br /><br />The world is constantly trying to interfere with our lives, both to help us live more easily, and to control and use us. Others will fight for your rights; others will try to make you live how they want you to. It SEEMS impossible to truly escape the influence of the world, unless you can adopt that Gandhi attitude of not being a slave to others' control, no matter what: "We shall feel happy and free like a bird even behind the prison walls." HOWEVER, anyone CAN adopt that attitude, fully or in small ways. That's where education and freedom comes in... if people can change their lives and they know it, then at some point it's up to them to choose to do it. Anyone can change their attitude, and embrace the freedom in their lives instead of being "switched off" and being herded by convention, government, media, habit, etc.<br /><br />Everything may be reviewed and critiqued but you don't have to care. For sure, the more control others have over you, the harder it is to escape. If you're out of the rat race, it's easy to say "Hey! I can do what I want!" If you don't have money in the bank people will say "We noticed you can't afford to pay for anything so we're going to charge you an Insufficient Funds Fee, which basically means we think you should give us some money just because you have none."<br /><br />I don't think it's about defining things positively vs negatively, but about not defining them at all. Evaluation of your life is a personal thing; what others think of it only matters to the degree you let it. Also the way we choose to live is a personal thing, regardless of if others put us in jail or tell us to buy a Slap Chop (I hear they suck by the way cuz the junk gets all jammed up in the blades). Given whatever situation you're in, you can make the most of it, or you can just do what's expected. However, realizing you have control of your attitude doesn't take much effort, once you start.Michael Devinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05558968323883297361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7485284789970057981.post-33855415862074648962010-01-09T18:03:28.021-07:002010-01-09T18:03:28.021-07:00I don't believe anything will change. Ever. No...I don't believe anything will change. Ever. Nothing will change. Everything will remain as it is. Unchanging. Except when it changes. Possibly because two or three empowered individuals decide to make it so.<br /><br />Education and opportunity is enough to get a few people to be scoffed at in derision by their other-ly-acting peers. Maybe at best they'll be post-humorously [sick!] awarded.<br /><br />Everything we change on a personal level is subject to review and critique and results determined from the larger world around us. We can decide that the smarter decision is to cut carbs and subsist on meat, but our hearts may say otherwise. We may determine everything in moderation and nothing to excess is a worthy goal. Or cutting calories. Or reaching for the golden ratio of 40 granules or fibrous fibers per days. Or downloading 4.7 jiggawatts of blu-ray DVDs in violation of copyright.<br /><br />I suppose it can only occur as a positive if we personally define it as a positive, regardless of citations from wikipedia editors. Maybe we can define being jailed as a reward and vindication for uprighteous behavior. And then be punished in death with 69 virgins because God loves Republicans.<br /><br />Negativity is so negative. I hates it. It hates us. It burns. It needs us.bobisimohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17043948097405363106noreply@blogger.com